oh thank God dbrand was about this close
to getting me lynched by an angry mob of retro gaming enthusiasts and all for
what to prey on Gamer's nostalgic memories of a simpler Time by selling
them these retro inspired dark plates
and call that a dark plate let's put it aside for now and focus on the star of
the show that whoops the world's first
64-bit gaming console not that any of
that really mattered it ran in 32-bit mode most of the time since it didn't
really need either the additional memory address space or the additional
Precision that was afforded to it by having a 64-bit chip it's just that
Nintendo like much of the gaming industry had kind of painted themselves
into a corner releasing 8-bit and 16-bit
then 32-bit consoles and marketing to
Consumers that more bits meant more performance when in fact that is not
truly the case of course it didn't stop Nintendo from leaning super hard into
the 64-bit branding in fact even the logo has 64 faces and 64 vertices to
refer to the 64-bit capability of the
machine there's actually a lot of kind of
performance and nuts and bolts marketing going on here that you just don't see
from Modern Nintendo I mean the frequency of the pro 94 megahertz I mean
I'm not saying that's a bad thing to talk about it's just can you imagine Nintendo talking about the performance
of the switch today I mean it would be a pretty verbose apology letter that's
kind of the only thing that I could imagine them saying about it complete
controller for every move with the unique analog control stick
that's right one analog control stick by
1999 when this one came out boy did they
ever have a library of games of course
the Nintendo 64 originally launched in 1996 and it was only a few years later
that they released these fun colors ice
fire smoke jungle watermelon and grape
and I gotta tell you it's not the kind of thing that as a 90s kid myself people
were running out and buying a new Nintendo 64 in order to get the new
colors but if you had the new colors it was
pretty cool even just the controllers
I mean I didn't own one so I never got to play with the cool you know clear
controllers or even the first party controllers but I got to Envy the kids
who had them not everything about 90s video game
marketing should make a return but I gotta say that's
fantastic Series yeah
yeah look at that anymore that's awesome it's just fun
wow this really is complete in box whether
it's on account of the packaging fading or something else those colors are very
different I I was looking at the packaging thinking wow dbrand really
didn't get the colors very right but compared to the console itself
yeah that is
pretty darn close obviously there's different colors of things inside which
make it a little bit tricky but especially if you look at it next to the
controller damn whoa Nintendo Power Magazine I
couldn't afford Nintendo Power Magazine I was a poor kid what happens if I
actually ship this now probably nothing a Year's subscription for 20 bucks how
the devil did they do an entire magazine and shipping for a dollar fifty an issue
oh oh there was other stuff to order in here oh store 64.
now that you've got the world's best video game system get the most out of it
I don't know if the world agreed PlayStation PlayStation one there's a
number of reasons for that if I had to boil it down to two things I'd say
Sony's triumph over Nintendo this generation came down to support for
third-party game developers and the choice of a disc based storage system
rather than a cartridge I mean as a Super Nintendo kid I never had one of
these or a PlayStation you know I would go to friends houses with PlayStations
and I'd go this is ridiculous the loading times when do you even play the
game but it enabled developers to build
much much larger experiences I mean
Final Fantasy 7 how many cartridges would you have needed it would have been
a 15 cartridge game and would have cost like 400 how much do you guys want these
Collectibles right now they actually kind of suck like the quality compared
to what you can make inexpensively these days is sort of trash but like
they're so I don't know genuine backpack
case 26 bucks I mean that makes our
backpack look like a rip-off lttstore.com
that is just about the stiffest feeling
N64 joystick I have ever touched
even back in 1996 I don't think I felt
one this good oh I
I said owned one power supply is only sort of
external my theory seeing something like this would be that it would allow them
to manufacture the consoles all the same and then just swap out the power
supplies depending on the region they were going to be shipping to but
because they region locked the consoles I don't really know what the point of
this is just a built-in power supply with extra steps I mean maybe they found
that the failure rates were quite high in testing and they wanted to be able to
easily fly I don't know ah right the expansion Port this was
used for the Nintendo disk drive which I think only got a handful of games all of
which were Japan exclusive that that's right right didn't it get like eight
games or something like that I don't remember how many but not very many
basically wasn't a thing the business end was here and I think we've actually
got a couple cartridges for today right the most common ones dbrand spent all
their money on the consoles and couldn't afford to send us any cool cartridges uh
let's go with Mario Kart 64. on the top there's a memory expansion Port that was
needed for just a handful of games uh among them uh Donkey Kong 64 Perfect
Dark it supported four controllers which was Flippin cool at the time though not
that anyone that I knew had four controllers just because controllers
like now were really really expensive but theoretically you could play games
for a player um the only time I think I ever played a
four control Fuller game was on a PlayStation with a multi-tap with one of
my friends but we didn't have any other friends so I think it was just me him
and his brother so we only made it to three anyway the point is the game
supported four controllers oh there's one more expansion port to show you guys
though the bottom of the controller was used for memory expansion so you could
save your game like that kind of memory and then also for rumble packs oh of
course they sent more colors okay um those ones weren't complete in box
but yeah can I may I place has
we have smoke
per Smash Bros in it and we also got an
orange one then everything's getting very chaotic over here right now I
think of all of this was to be able to compare the colors of the dbrand dark
plates with the original controllers and consoles smoke looks pretty darn good
and what was the orange called again
wow yeah yeah that does look fire now the
question is I know I'm not in too much trouble because none of these were
sealed in box but they're all in great condition so how much trouble would I
get into if I were to disassemble one of them with this screwdriver
let's put this away for now I'm not opening up any of these consoles now
there's one color that we don't have a comparison for Atomic purple consoles
were exceedingly rare only a handful of prototypes existed but there were
controllers so dbrand felt like ah screw
it we'll do an atomic purple console if you want to make your PlayStation 5 look
all Atomic purple retro I think it looks flipping awesome I think it's
probably the second best color I didn't think I would like ice as much
but in person I think you're right David I'm with you
ice looks amazing I guess we're set up
to play on the smoke console though so why don't we do that and then I will
just use the ice controller now you
actually had an N64 hey yeah I remember getting mine and crying when my mom
opened the trunk and the N64 box was there but it was just a plain black it
was one of these cool see-through ones did you really just try to start the
mushroom cup with me moo Farm is Elite
Farm if you really want oh perfect I
don't even know what button makes the cartoon ask you which one that is
oh there's no boost I forgot uh yep oh I
missed I missed this is not going well okay
yeah you you do not want to lose tonight
um oh and the checkpoint was so far back I missed again oh thank goodness I just
made it I got time I got time are you just trying to like Bullet Bill to the
end because I don't think that's a thing in this game oh no yeah sorry I'm not
trying to be rude or anything but you suck listen I'm prepping for game link
okay my controller doesn't work uh I'm straight into the wall my controller is
legit broken yeah that sounds like cancer it's making I can't turn to the
left okay we're gonna do full right to turn around then
yeah you were throwing a lot of I got the little brother controller
you did not stick drip you talked about
how great the controller was before we
started okay so I don't even want to hear it kabad you got this go left
oh no I lost okay I just gotta make this
left turn sorry because it doesn't work
dbrand they really hooped me I gotta go
right to go left I honestly thought you were just like
joking maybe for the new CEO at game Throw but not it's like cheap
my preference is blocked Port but I'll play double deck as well let's go block
four go block yeah I want to beach home turf you want to beat me on my home term
well you're gonna have to beat me so that's gonna be tough all right let's
see game link is never gonna have me on yeah
I mean not everyone can be a true gamer
all right well thanks for having me on uh you could have at least tried to hit
me once I did I did try did you really
yeah oh that's me right now crying because Mario
and this is me oh finally unboxing the
actual product from our spot they did
they totally did they ripped off
the color scheme of our color block hoodie wait did they do this on purpose
this is our ShortCircuit color block hoodie
and they totally ripped it off this is cool they did super detailed
x-ray scans of the PlayStation 5 so when you put these stickers on you will be
seeing exactly what you would see if you were Superman like not creepy Superman
who uses your power to look inside your game console and not your neighbor's
wall gotta respect the attention to detail even the fan filters are blue
that's cool all right dbrand you did
pretty good today these look sick you didn't get me canceled for unboxing a
brand new inbox n64. oh yeah they've still got the challenge to Sony's
lawyers in binary in here so that's cute
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